Netflix Inc. said its streaming video service was hit by an outage as a result of problems at Web service provider Amazon.com Inc.
“Netflix is down for some customers this Christmas Eve, thanks to an outage of some of Amazon’s cloud infrastructure,” the company said on its Twitter account.
A Netflix spokesman added that the outage stretched “across the Americas.”
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